Global-MMA Rankings - November 2015

Heavyweight
1.  Vitaly Minakov (Bellator Champion)
2.  Marcin Tybura (M-1 Global Champion)
3.  Sergei Kharitonov (M-1 Global)
4.  Blagoy Ivanov (WSOF Champion)
5.  Tony Johnson (Bellator)
6.  Cheick Kongo (Bellator)
7.  Denis Goltsov (Tech-Krep)
8.  Karol Bedorf (KSW Champion)
9.  Alexander Volkov (Free Agent)
10. Evgeny Erokhin (WSOF)

Other Contenders: Denis Smoldarev (M-1 Global), Smealinho Rama (WSOF), Fernando Rodrigues Jr. (IGF), Satoshi Ishii (IGF), Bobby Lashley (Bellator)

Light Heavyweight
1.  Liam McGeary (Bellator Champion)
2.  Phil Davis (Bellator)
3.  Emanuel Newton (Bellator)
4.  Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (Bellator)
5.  Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal (Bellator)
6.  Stephan Puetz (M-1 Global Champion)
7.  David Branch (WSOF Champion)
8.  Tomasz Narkun (KSW Champion)
9.  Goran Reljic (KSW)
10. Attila Vegh (KSW)

Other Contenders: Viktor Nemkov (M-1 Global), Tito Ortiz (Bellator), Vinny Magalhaes (WSOF), Linton Vassell (Bellator), Teddy Holder (WSOF)

Middleweight
1.  Mamed Khalidov (KSW)
2.  Ramazan Emeev (M-1 Global Champion)
3.  Rafael Carvalho (Bellator Champion)
4.  Vyacheslav Vasilevsky (M-1 Global)
5.  Brandon Halsey (Bellator)
6.  Michal Materla (KSW Champion)
7.  David Branch (WSOF Champion)
8.  Alexander Shlemenko (Bellator)
9.  Maiquel Falcao (KSW)
10. Vitaly Bigdash (ONE FC Champion)

Other Contenders: Ken Hasegawa (DEEP), Yushin Okami (WSOF), Tomasz Drwal (KSW), Young Choi (DEEP Champion), Kendall Grove (Bellator)

Welterweight
1.  Ben Askren (ONE FC Champion)
2.  Rousimar Palhares (WSOF)
3.  Andrey Koreshkov (Bellator Champion)
4.  Douglas Lima (Bellator)
5.  Jake Shields (WSOF)
6.  Borys Mankowski (KSW Champion)
7.  Paul Daley (Bellator)
8.  Michael Page (Bellator)
9.  Jon Fitch (WSOF)
10. Shingo Suzuki (King of Pancrase)

Other Contenders: Luis Santos (ONE FC), Yuta Watanabe (DEEP), Fernando Gonzalez (Bellator), Brennan Ward (Bellator), Murad Abdulaev (M-1 Global Champion)

Lightweight
1.  Will Brooks (Bellator Champion)
2.  Shinya Aoki (ONE FC Champion)
3.  Justin Gaethje (WSOF Champion)
4.  Michael Chandler (Bellator)
5.  Marcin Held (Bellator)
6.  Patricky Freire (Bellator)
7.  Ramazan Esenbaev (M-1 Global)
8.  David Rickels (Bellator)
9.  Dave Jansen (Bellator)
10. Jason Knight (Titan)

Other Contenders: Lowen Tynanes (ONE FC), Saad Awad (Bellator), Josh Thomson (Bellator), Alexander Sarnavskiy (Free Agent), Musa Khamanaev (ACB)

Featherweight
1.  Patricio Freire (Bellator Champion)
2.  Daniel Weichel (Bellator)
3.  Pat Curran (Bellator)
4.  Lance Palmer (WSOF Champion)
5.  Daniel Straus (Bellator)
6.  Rick Glenn (WSOF)
7.  Kazunori Yokota (DEEP Champion)
8.  Georgi Karakhanyan (Bellator)
9.  Goiti Yamauchi (Bellator)
10. Jadamba Narantungala (ONE FC Champion)

Other Contenders: Marat Gafurov (ONE FC), Ivan Buchinger (M-1 Global Champion), Isao Kobayashi (Bellator), Yutaka Saito (Shooto), John Teixeira da Conceicao (Bellator)

Bantamweight
1.  Bibiano Fernandes (ONE FC Champion)
2.  Marlon Moraes (WSOF Champion)
3.  Marcos Galvao (Bellator Champion)
4.  Joe Warren (Bellator)
5.  Eduardo Dantas (Bellator)
6.  Soo Chul Kim (ROAD FC)
7.  Masakatsu Ueda (Pancrase)
8.  Dae Hwan Kim (ONE FC)
9.  Timur Valiev (WSOF)
10. Jonathan Brookins (Pancrase)

Other Contenders: Luis Alberto Nogueira (Pancrase), Victor Henry (Pancrase), Kevin Belingon (ONE FC), Shintaro Ishiwatari (King of Pancrase), Darrion Caldwell (Bellator)


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Global-MMA Ranking Update Summary

* Ranked Fighters Removed from All Previous Rankings Dating Back to February 2012:

Heavyweight: Tony Lopez, Cole Konrad (Retired), Eric Prindle, Todd Duffee (UFC), Alexei Kudin, Soa Palelei (UFC), Levan Razmadze, Rich Hale, Chaban Ka, Rolles Gracie, Jeff Monson, Peter Graham, Alexey Oleinik (UFC), Aleksander Emelianenko, Ryan Martinez, Lavar Johnson, Mike Russow, Andrei Arlovski (UFC), Dmitriy Sosnovskiy, Guram Gugenishvilli, Derrick Mehmen, Kenny Garner, Brett Rogers, Magomed Malikov, Konstantin Erokhin (UFC), Shamil Abdurahimov (UFC), Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (UFC), Konstantin Gluhov, Stephan Puetz (Division Change), Damian Grabowski (UFC), Ken Hasegawa (Division Change)

Light Heavyweight: Glover Texeira (UFC), D.J. Linderman, Marcus Vanttinen, Gegard Mousasi (Strikeforce), Jimi Manuwa (UFC), Roger Hollett (UFC), Richard Hale (Division Change), Mark Godbeer, Maxim Grishin, Travis Wiuff (Division Change), Sergey Kornev (Retired), Robert Drysdale (UFC), Renato “Babalu” Sobral, Aleksandar Radosavljevic (Retired), Max Nunes, Jacob Noe, Raphael Davis, Jan Blachowicz (UFC), Anthony Johnson (UFC), Paul Buentello, Vladimir Matyushenko (Retired), Moise Rimbon, Christian M’Pumbu, Joey Beltran, Luiz Cane, Yoshiyuki Nakanishi (Division Change), James McSweeney, Jason Jones, Roger Gracie, Maxim Grishin, Mikhail Zayats, Mike Kyle, Thiago Silva

Middleweight: Nate Marquardt (Strikeforce), Giva Santana, Bryan Baker, Hector Lombard (UFC), Andrei Semenov, Jorge Santiago (Strikeforce), Anthony Johnson (Division Change), Ryuta Sakurai, Magomed Sultanakhmedov (Retired), Antonio Neto (UFC), Thales Leites (UFC), Vitor Vianna, Bruno Santos, Roger Gracie (Division Change), Mario Miranda (Division Change), Arthur Guseinov, Dan Cramer, Eun-Su Lee, Elvis Mutapcic, Jesse Taylor, Leandro Ataides, Jay Silva, Brett Cooper, Kazuhiro Nakamura (Retired), Joe Schilling, Melvin Manhoef (Retired), Tamdan McCrory (UFC), Yoshiyuki Nakanishi, Doug Marshall

Welterweight: Ben Saunders, Gael Grimaud, Bryan Baker, Yuya Shirai, Marius Zaromskis, Lyman Good, Myung Ho Bae, Fabricio Monteiro, Jay Hieron, Karl Amoussou, Akihiro Murayama, Rashid Magomedov (UFC), Albert Tumenov (UFC), Alexander Yakovlev (UFC), Takenori Sato (UFC), Shamil Zavurov, Aslambek Saidov, Josh Burkman (UFC), Ryan Ford, Rick Hawn, Steve Carl (UFC), Beslan Isaev, Yasubey Enomoto, Gota Yamashita, Keita “K-Taro” Nakamura (UFC), Nobutatsu Suzuki

Lightweight: Francisco Trinaldo (UFC), Ricardo Tirloni, Koji Oishi, Mizuto Hirota (Strikeforce), Mairbek Taisumov, Zorobabel Moreira, Rich Clementi, Katsunori Kikuno, Paul Sass, Lloyd Woodard, Antonio McKee (Retired), Lewis Gonzales, Satoru Kitaoka, Yui Chul Nam (UFC), Kuniyoshi Hironaka, Kotetsu Boku, Naoyuki Kotani (UFC), Nick Newell, Eddie Alvarez (UFC), Leandro Silva (UFC), Luis “Buscape” Firmino, Melvin Guillard, Isao Kobayashi (Division Change), Vuyisile Colossa, Mansour Barnaoui, Koji Ando

Featherweight: Ronnie Mann, Mike Corey, Wilson Reis, Joachim Hansen, Mike Richman, Yusuke Kawanago, Takeshi Inoue, Joe Warren (Division Change), Wagnney Fabiano, Shahbulat Shamhalaev, Honorio Banario, Kazuyuki Miyata, Tatsuya Kawajiri (UFC), Doo Ho Choi (UFC), Takumi Nakayama, Marlon Sandro, Matt Bessette, Shinya Aoki (Division Change), Fabricio de Assis Costa da Silva, Hiroyuki Takaya, Daniel Romero, Magomeddrasul Khasbulaev, Koji Oishi (Retired), Caol Uno, Yoshifumi Nakamura, Diego Nunes

Bantamweight: Hiroshi Nakamura, Masakazu Imanari, Hideo Tokoro, Yusup Saadulaev, Antonio Banuelos, Wagnney Fabiano (Division Change), Alexis Vila, Rodolfo Marques Diniz, Travis Marx, Zach Makovsky (Division Change), Kyoji Horiguchi (UFC), Miguel Torres, Leandro Issa (UFC), Pablo Alfonso, Ed West, Anthony Leone, Yuta Sasaki (UFC), Tyson Nam, Cody Bollinger, Takafumi Otsuka, Josh Hill, Rafael Silva, Mike Richman


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Global-MMA Ranking Rules

*This ranking system includes fighters that are not under exclusive contract to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

*Top level fighters that leave the UFC may be ranked in subsequent rankings.

*Fighters that sign exclusively to the UFC will be removed from the rankings.

*Rankings are based on a fighter's overall career results and recent performance.

*A fighter will be ranked number one if he defeats the number one ranked fighter in the weight division except under certain rare circumstances where the number two ranked fighter clearly deserves to move into the number one ranking position.  

*Victories over highly ranked fighters and losses against non-ranked opponents have a larger effect on the fighters ranking position.

*A fighter will not necessarily take the place of his opponent in the rankings after a victory or a loss.

* A fighter can move up a maximum of three spots with impressive victories over a fighter ranked below him; however, there is no limit if the fighter earned a title or a tournament championship with the victory.

* An unranked newly crowned champion who earned a title in a major league MMA promotion can enter the top ten even with a victory over an unranked fighter.

*A fighter will drop in the rankings if he does not fight regularly against high level competition.

*A top ten ranked fighter can become ranked in another weight division after one or more wins in his new weight class.

*A fighter can be ranked in two different weight divisions.

*Champions and fighters from prominent promotions will have an advantage over champions and fighters from promotions with lesser competition.

*A fighter will be removed from the rankings if he does not fight for two years.

*Fighters that are signed to multiple promotions will have their promotions listed based on the following criteria: 1) championship held in a promotion, 2) predominant promotion the fighter fights in, 3) promotion
last fought in.

*Rankings will be updated every month.

Is there any way you can post a commentary on the changes since the previous month?

nodogoshi wrote:Is there any way you can post a commentary on the changes since the previous month?

I use to do that every month but I have not had time lately.  Maybe in the future I will add that back in but I can't say for sure right now.  

I liked it better as well with the commentary updates to explain the changes which was good just to have a quick summary.  Maybe a up and down arrow near the fighter's names showing which fighters moved for now without a commentary might be quick and helpful, as an idea for now.

Arrows are fine too (with numbers hopefully) just something to keep track of the movements.

nodogoshi wrote:Arrows are fine too (with numbers hopefully) just something to keep track of the movements.

I can get the arrows working in Word on my PC where I store the rankings but not sure how on this forum.  Even if it is possible, if it can't copy from Word it would be difficult.  May have to think of something else. I do agree though, would be great to show the movements like before with the summary.  May go back to just writing a quick summary of the movements without all the information I use to include.  I may just state fighter moved from number 8 to contenders or something along these lines to keep it quick but informative.

Another option is: 3. Bill (last month 5). 6. Joe (last month 2). 10. Jon (last month same).

Up to you. Just something like that would be nice.

Or only note the ones that moved, or whatever.

nodogoshi wrote:Another option is: 3. Bill (last month 5). 6. Joe (last month 2). 10. Jon (last month same).

Up to you. Just something like that would be nice.

That might work as well. I will see what looks best and show where the moves were at.

Just updated rankings to account for KSW results today since these are the November rankings.

Palhares was just suspended for 2 years.  Not sure if he will appeal or if WSOF will let him fight outside the US or what is going to happen.  

I left him in this month but might remove him next month.

Any thoughts on this?  Could lose the number 2 WW but he has had a number of chances.

Paul Harris was on his way to being #1 honestly but yeah all that's out the window, feel free to leave him at #2 and just adjust month by month until the next real #2 appears (Koreshkov after a most likely after a defense against Ward) or Askren gets dethroned.

AudaxSynth wrote:Paul Harris was on his way to being #1 honestly but yeah all that's out the window, feel free to leave him at #2 and just adjust month by month until the next real #2 appears (Koreshkov after a most likely after a defense against Ward) or Askren gets dethroned.

You're right, he was real close to number 1. There are good arguments that he could be number 1 right now or be number 1 after his next fight.

Yeah, guess I'll wait a bit and see what happens. If it looks like the 2 year suspension will hold and he won't be fighting, I may remove him at some point.

nodogoshi wrote:Arrows are fine too (with numbers hopefully) just something to keep track of the movements.

1. Yuki Motoya (Deep Champion) 1
2. Adriano Moraes (ONE FC Champion) 1

i try this

UPDATED HW RANKINGS

Heavyweight
1. Peter Graham (KSW)
2. Fedor Emelinko (M-1 Global Champion)
3. Mighty Mo (Free Agent)
4. Blagoy Ivanov (WSOF Champion)
5. Tony Johnson (Bellator)
6. Cheick Kongo (Bellator)
7. Denis Goltsov (Tech-Krep)
8. Karol Bedorf (KSW Champion)
9. Alexander Volkov (Free Agent)
10. Evgeny Erokhin (WSOF)

CDF47 wrote:

AudaxSynth wrote:Paul Harris was on his way to being #1 honestly but yeah all that's out the window, feel free to leave him at #2 and just adjust month by month until the next real #2 appears (Koreshkov after a most likely after a defense against Ward) or Askren gets dethroned.

You're right, he was real close to number 1.  There are good arguments that he could be number 1 right now or be number 1 after his next fight.

Yeah, guess I'll wait a bit and see what happens.  If it looks like the 2 year suspension will hold and he won't be fighting, I may remove him at some point.

he could lodge an appeal maybe? get it cut down to a year?

I hope he goes to Rizin and ONE FC....fuck fighting in America whats the point when youre getting cut from the ufc for fucking winning by submission. Aint no one complaining about extra punches on a guy when he's laid out cold

FREE ROUSIMAR

Kingfedor wrote:

nodogoshi wrote:Arrows are fine too (with numbers hopefully) just something to keep track of the movements.

1. Yuki Motoya (Deep Champion) 1
2. Adriano Moraes (ONE FC Champion) 1

i try this

Nice!  Looks great. I will see if I can get that to work in MS Word and on here.  

Also, great work as always with the FLWs and Women's rankings.

stu3ufc wrote:UPDATED HW RANKINGS

Heavyweight
1.  Peter Graham (KSW)
2.  Fedor Emelinko (M-1 Global Champion)
3.  Mighty Mo (Free Agent)
4.  Blagoy Ivanov (WSOF Champion)
5.  Tony Johnson (Bellator)
6.  Cheick Kongo (Bellator)
7.  Denis Goltsov (Tech-Krep)
8.  Karol Bedorf (KSW Champion)
9.  Alexander Volkov (Free Agent)
10. Evgeny Erokhin (WSOF)

LOL

stu3ufc wrote:

CDF47 wrote:

AudaxSynth wrote:Paul Harris was on his way to being #1 honestly but yeah all that's out the window, feel free to leave him at #2 and just adjust month by month until the next real #2 appears (Koreshkov after a most likely after a defense against Ward) or Askren gets dethroned.

You're right, he was real close to number 1.  There are good arguments that he could be number 1 right now or be number 1 after his next fight.

Yeah, guess I'll wait a bit and see what happens.  If it looks like the 2 year suspension will hold and he won't be fighting, I may remove him at some point.

he could lodge an appeal maybe? get it cut down to a year?

I hope he goes to Rizin and ONE FC....fuck fighting in America whats the point when youre getting cut from the ufc for fucking winning by submission. Aint no one complaining about extra punches on a guy when he's laid out cold

FREE ROUSIMAR

That's what I am waiting to see, is if an appeal can maybe get this reduced or if he can fight elsewhere outside the US.

I think it sucks Palhares may be out for up to 2 years but he is deliberately holding subs for too long, torquing subs after tapouts, eye gouging,...  There is a history of this, so the suspension is justified.  If he does appeal, his appeal may get thrown out due to this history. I think it sucks but seems right he got suspended.

stu3ufc wrote:

CDF47 wrote:

AudaxSynth wrote:Paul Harris was on his way to being #1 honestly but yeah all that's out the window, feel free to leave him at #2 and just adjust month by month until the next real #2 appears (Koreshkov after a most likely after a defense against Ward) or Askren gets dethroned.

You're right, he was real close to number 1.  There are good arguments that he could be number 1 right now or be number 1 after his next fight.

Yeah, guess I'll wait a bit and see what happens.  If it looks like the 2 year suspension will hold and he won't be fighting, I may remove him at some point.

he could lodge an appeal maybe? get it cut down to a year?

I hope he goes to Rizin and ONE FC....fuck fighting in America whats the point when youre getting cut from the ufc for fucking winning by submission. Aint no one complaining about extra punches on a guy when he's laid out cold

FREE ROUSIMAR

I was going to say the same damn thing.

If he is stuck with this suspension, WSOF could maybe let him go to Japan. Would be great to see him fight but he can't be eye gouging and holding subs longer than he should.

Peter Graham > Fedor

stu3ufc wrote:Peter Graham > Fedor

Fedor arm bar round 1

King Fedor added the new Strawweight division, in addition to the FLWs and Women's FWs.

Great stuff. Love to see rankings of the other promotions' athletes. They ALL kick ass, not just Zuffa fighters.

Where will Fedor sit if he looks sharp and picks up his fourth win in a row?

TeepToTheJunk wrote:Great stuff.  Love to see rankings of the other promotions' athletes.  They ALL kick ass, not just Zuffa fighters.

Where will Fedor sit if he looks sharp and picks up his fourth win in a row?

Thanks. Glad you like them.  

That is a good question.  If he fights a good fighter and looks impressive he could stand in the top 5.  After the fight, if it is a tough call, maybe we will do another poll on here for Fedor's ranking position.  We have done polls in the past so this may be a good time for another one, depending on how this turns out.